Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Actress

Born - 14 December 1935, Bath, Somerset, England
Died - 16 September 2024

Bubbly, elfin-faced, fair-haired English actress with striking dark brown eyes, notable as one of the killer's victims in Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972). From an acting family, she was on stage and TV from the mid 1950s. Film appearances include those in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959), Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972), Bequest to the Nation (1973), Oh Heavenly Dog (1980), a voice in The Plague Dogs (1982), Paper Mask (1990), Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997), Billy Elliot (2000), The Martins (2001) and Vanity Fair (2004), her last. Her husband, actor Richard Pasco, died in 2014. Actor Ronald Leigh-Hunt was her cousin.